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Texas Is Going to Save Chick-fil-A, Whether You Like It or Not

All this because San Antonio didn't want a Chick-fil-A in its airport. The Texas House of Representatives signed off on Texas Senate Bill 1978 on Monday, saving Texas Republicans from their worst fears about religious discrimination or opening the state's LGBTQ community up to further discrimination, depending on who's talking...
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15 Years in, City Hall Prepares Way to Losing Car Wash Fight Yet Again

The core Achilles’ heel problem, the perennial failing and persistent flaw in the way Dallas City Hall thinks and operates, is its bizarre insularity, almost as if the world outside Dallas city limits does not exist. Maybe the strangest and most wonderful illustration of that problem is the now almost...
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23 Things To Do in Dallas This Week, March 2 – 8

Monday, March 2 Tuesday, March 3 Wednesday, March 4 The Red Pears One hot summer day in 2014, a seed was planted somewhere around El Monte, California. It happened the moment musicians Henry Vargas and José Corona started talking about starting a band. The two played their first show with...
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Dallas Can Grieve for Botham Jean Without Bowing to Shame

The death of Botham Jean, a 26-year-old accountant and innocent man, and the trial of his killer, former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, have challenged Dallas as no event since the 2016 murders of five police officers in one terrible night downtown. Now as then, a big part of this...
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Shoulda Put a Ring On It: Cowboys’ Jason Garrett Faces a Win or Die Season

To the drumbeat of blue-balls fans tortured by a quarter-century of frustrating foreplay, and the backbeat of construction clangabang violently serenading the team’s annual state-of-the-union address, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones set the tone for the 2019 season by … pretending to be deaf. Eschewing traditional softball questions for a...
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Forget Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. Listen to Wallace Hall.

In the end, everything about Hollywood is basically absurd, so the same is true for the prosecution of two actresses, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, on charges they paid bribes to get their kids into college. But a story based right here in Dallas reminds us that stupid Hollywood tricks...
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The Dallas Observer’s Most Read News Stories of 2019

There is one end-of-year list that's easier to put together than the rest. When it comes to identifying the most read news stories of the year, there's no hemming or hawing, no debate in the office or even any critical thinking necessary. The decisions about what goes on this list...
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Here’s the Lineup for This Year’s Free State Fair Concert Series

Oppressive Texas summer temperatures may already be bearing down on us, but on the plus side, if we survive for the next 100 days, we'll get to visit our favorite perennial event. That's when the State Fair of Texas opens. We can’t wait to consume copious amounts of fried-whatever-the-hell-we-want as...
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Come Fly With Us to Pilots’ Favorite ‘$100 Hamburgers’

Five pilots sat around a table over lunch recently, discussing gumbo, cargo flights out of Winnipeg and getting stuck in a holding pattern. They were at Ardmore Municipal Airport in Oklahoma watching planes come and go from the dining room at Jake's Joint. The chef-driven restaurant adjacent to the runway...
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Texas House Votes to Kill One of State’s Most Loathed Programs

It's hard to find anyone who likes Texas' Driver Responsibility Program. Civil rights groups hate it. The Texas Tea Party hates it. The Observer's readers, judging from the number of emails we've received about it, hate it. With a unanimous vote Thursday, the Texas House of Representatives showed that it...
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Dallas ISD Scores a B in New A-F School Ratings

Dallas ISD continued to perform above average in a new round of state A-F district ratings released Thursday. The district scored a B rating for the 2018-2019 school year, the same grade it received the year before. But twice as many schools in the district received failing marks in this...